Musical Memory

[tysolna]

It's weird, when you hear something and you know you know it, but you have no idea where you know it from or why you know it. I've tuned into BBC Radio 3, and there's a piece of classical music playing that I think I recognize, but the composer and name don't ring a bell. It's Tableaux de Provence by someone called Paule Maurice, a piece for saxophone and orchestra. Maybe I've heard it years ago in a concert somewhere, because these days, something as strange as saxophone and orchestra should lodge itself in my mind. Or maybe it just reminds me of some movie soundtrack.
The Kreisler piece, however, I know. I was able to play it twenty years ago.

edited to add: And now they're playing Der Rosenkavalier. I love BBC 3.

edited to add: Tchaikovsky, Violin Concerto in D, Op 35. I'm in heaven. Thank you, BBC 3.
Oh, and Vadim Repin beats Anne-Sophie Mutter hands-down.

Comments

[queuedub.livejournal.com]

Recommendation: Antonin Dvorak's Ninth Symphony From the New World.

You will know it when you hear it. I was (re?)introduced to it by watching Boston Public. It's use as a motif within that show has influenced quite a lot of my characterisations in my writings.

But I digress.

Further recommedations...

• Carmina Burana Carl Orff
• Also Spracht Zarathustra (theme to 2001)
• Night on a bald Mountain Modest Mussorgsky
• Suppe's Light Overture
  Trust me on Night on a bald mountain, though. It's the one piece where you'll go Yes, I've finally found you!

[tysolna]

Uh, well - I know them all. ;) I love Dvorak's Ninth, in fact, the end always makes me tear up a little.
And Mussorgsky rocks. *nods*
Thanks for the recommendations, anway! :)

[xhirra.livejournal.com]

I can tell you exactly why you know the Tableaux de Provence - I've been playing it with three saxophonists for their instrumental exams. I'm quite sure you've heard me with at least two of the three! Obviously, I didn't play the orchestra but the piano. So this may be the reason why you didn't recognize it. ;)

[tysolna]

Aaah! *headpalm* Now that explains it. Thanks! :-D